If this is from "The Bet", then it would have been because the lawyer is writing this as a final notice before his escape.
Answer: extinguish
Explanation:
It cannot be split into two sensible words.
The student as well as his teacher are reading a book .
if it is said to do in present form
OR,
The student as well as his teacher were reading a book .
if it is said to do in past form
BTS ARMY GIRL
Rashmi ~
It means that whomever or whatever the object and/or person is, they represent something much bigger in the story, or it means that it has a meaning other then its literal one.